Historically, the Creative Assembly have worked purely on PC and Consoles, writing their own engine tech for the Total War series, we visited the studio to ask them about their experience of using Unity to take the series to mobile platforms.

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It’s so easy to get into mindset of doing “just one more change”, “just one more thing”. And that prevents game from getting done. The last playtests I did, made me think that I need to change one card. Gameplay already worked just fine, but somehow I didn’t like how the one card worked, so decided to change it.

That’s it, I say to myself. But this small change means I gotta go through more testing to ensure things are balanced.

I’m already proud of what I’ve done, and even though I keep getting more ideas for more items, more specialties and more everything… I decided to do folder called “expansion” and put the ideas on that folder. When I get new ideas, I know where they go.

That way I feel that my ideas are waiting there, not gone in vain – but also that I get sensible progress.

And, finally I can start say that this card game of mine – it’s near the finish line. I have bunch of tasks on my list. Cannot wait to get them done.

What about you – are you feature creep? Where do you draw the line between “polishing” and “creep”?

You can read this review in full in our print edition.

Our July issue, which goes on sale June 6, features a Post Script article on the various cinematic styles that have influenced Rockstar's game.

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Developers using Unreal Engine 3 are now able to incorporate true stereoscopic 3D in their console and PC games, after RealD joined Epic Games' Integrated Partners Program.

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I arrive at the office at 9am, walk to my desk, nod at my boss as well as to the Super Sheep stuffed toy that Team17 have sent us. (I still remember the first time I blew one up in the original Worms. Good times.)

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What’s Jade Raymond best known for? Probably not her greatest, if still unproven, achievement, which is to establish a major new game development studio for Ubisoft in Toronto. Nor for heading its prized Splinter Cell series.

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The UK's videogame rating system has been revised by the government to bring it in line with European standards from July.

As such, games released in the UK will receive a PEGI rating from the Video Standards Council (VSC) as opposed to the British Board of Film Classification. The BBFC will still deal with games that are considered to contain gross violence or sexual material, however.

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Post-grads: can you remember much about your final thesis? The Arcades Project? Something to do with Kracauer? A quote or two from good old Richard Feynman? It’s probably a bit of a hazy collage to you by now - a few scattered snapshots of short-term loan books and Post-it notes, a jumble of photocopier cards and cups of grainy Maxwell House.

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